“…Female inspectors tended invariably to act as vehicles for the more "feminine" aspects of physical education (PE) ( Étard). It is only recently that we have begun to understand the careers, trajectories and actions of the few women who were able to access the highest levels of the inspectorate, such as Marie-Thérèse Eyquem (Castan Vicente, 2009;Castan-Vicente, 2016Castan-Vicente, Bohuon, et al, 2019;Castan-Vicente, Nicolas, et al, 2019;Munoz, 2002;Terfous, 2010;Terret, 2010), Yvonne Surrel (Abonnen, 2010;Levet-Labry, 2007, Odette Jullien (Szerdahelyi, 2016) and Annick Davisse (Ottogalli-Mazzacavallo, 2013;Ottogalli-Mazzacavallo & Szerdahelyi, 2018. Of course, they were not alone in this.…”